Every day the bait gets lower and lower effort

I think in the middle east group they can chown woman, and that is probably coming to the America group in the next patch.

I usually set the thermostat to 28c or so, but I doubt it gets there, I get a sore throat at night if it's cold and I end up being miserable and spending way too long in bed the next day.

You are literally 12?

No, I'm not determined on anything you projecting fool, I am saying that based on your definitions of community and my lived experience, it is others who are determined to close their eyes and ears from me and from each other.

And no, I'm not gonna go up to literal strangers that have never spoken to me or each other ever nor shown any signs of wanting to do so and tell them about hosting some sort of unsanctioned "party" because some guy said this will be good, or something, on the internet - a place where no one lies.

This doesn't make me determined to "close my eyes and ears to those around" me, not acting based on the unprovable words of one guy, referencing something I only ever hear about on the internet about something that suspiciously doesn't seem to leave any traces of existing IRL makes me fucking sane.

So either we live in completely different realities, which yeah - I don't live in America, or you are lying, or I am lying, or we're not understanding each other.

Last time a different guy on the internet tried to explain this and they just kept claiming they built a local community with their neighbours, skipping over how they managed to even get along, he said he would show up to their neighbours to mow their lawn and that that is going to accomplish something or other, which is insane because if someone shows up to your door and asks to do your chores for free - most people would call the cops because that shit is creepy and unusual as hell and literally no one does that.

Hell - even knocking on neighbours doors within the same apartment block without a reason is at least disturbing the peace and nuisance as well, they'd be well within their rights to call the cops, no one wants marketing shit, especially if it's for some vague "community" shit. They're gonna think I'm trying to sell them a pyramid scheme.

You say "there's a bit focus here on" and I dont understand what you mean, do you mean like by the government? Or are you saying regular people are somehow contributing? If so, how? And how are they organized?

I have a high aversion to echo chambers because I too am a human same as everyone and find people just agreeing with me grossly unstimulating and seek out takes opposite to mine to understand them, deconstruct them and apply them to my own views either to refine/change them with a newly gained perspective or to argue against the opposing view.

I blocked all of those people because they are just unsalvageable people in my view. I was discussing the finer points of relative drug danger with some guy in a thread, talking about hypothetical lethal dosages for ht-2a classical psychedelics, and the guy was bringing up "Woodstock" and "brown acid" and how he "heard of a guy" etc etc.

There's no point discussing anything ever with a person like that, it's clear that we think along such different lines the differences are irreconcilable, like trying to convince someone not to be a bigot or disprove someone's belief in religion/conspiracy with evidence and reason, when they just believe in that stuff, they don't think about it and weren't reasoned into it.

That you live in the same area.

But that' happenstance. Literally thousands of randoms live in the same area. I've never seen the same person twice, and I'm sure they want to be left alone. Not really enough to start a conversation.

You have the same elected representatives

Pretty sure an average person has no idea who that is or what that means. Hell, I don't know who that is for my area from a few months ago.

you shop at the same stores

That's a bit of an assumption.

you live with the same stakes

I'm not even sure what you mean by that. We have almost nothing in common in our actual lives apart from living in the same city and area. Like, moving cities doesn't substantially change anything about your life, you still do the things you do, work the job you work, know the people you know, etc etc.

People don't just strike up conversations with other people because they live in the same apartment block.

That's why people say you need to get involved in your community.

I get that - what I don't understand is how. And to answer that first I need to find this "community".

You say it's not a website, but the only time I've ever seen anyone discuss something relevant to a local area was a Facebook community for that city, which was mostly boomers whining about gormless buskers in the suburbs or old people posting black and white photographs saying they are looking for someone they saw in a bar hundreds of miles away 40 years ago, like some kind of strange ARG.

Whether or not you acknowledge it, you're part of it

I can acknowledge it all I want, it doesn't matter if most other people aren't aware of this supposed community we share, or of other people in general.

I'm also a part of the cosmos but I don't think I've ever spoken to a Martian either.

Idk again on paper you say things that make sense and I could picture a fictional Lynchian village where neighbours talk to each other and greet each other and maybe even discuss their elected representatives or whatever if they're tight-knit, but this just doesn't match anything even close to my lived reality.

I do appreciate the explanation though, thanks.

Honestly I think it's perfectly fine and I don't think it makes you more/less neurotypical at all. I just think there's different folks and they like different strokes, y'know?

I'm not coming at it from "hating" small talk, everything is so insanely intense these days, whenever I talk about anything critically people assume I "hate" it, but I don't, I'm actually just curious about it. I think it would be cool if I could learn to appreciate small talk for instance, but for that I'd need to actually understand what it's about. But I suppose it's just not for me because I just don't really have those thoughts like "nice day today" and such.

Same!

Blocked for calling anarchists absurd.

That is a dumb take and you could look it up on Wikipedia if you cared and iota to read many influential anarchist authors e.g. Kropotkin or Grabber, but trying to prove wrong every wrong person on the internet I'd never have time for myself so I'm moving on.

I have blocked 264 users, 9 communities and 4 instances and it's made Lemmy much better for me toxicity wise. Whenever a debate gets toxic or someone starts just insulting or discussing in bad faith or I just get a bad vibe from them - I block.

Cron job that evals some base64 encoded string which is actually downloading a script from a personal GitHub repo of an IT guy who left...

God and I thought the plot of the Fallout TV show was absurd with the "Bud's Buds" shit but it's literally real

Lmao that's a good one.

Hahaha I always do this with chemical brothers because of "my chemical romance" which is a very different band, well spotted.

I was pretty confused for a moment reading this, thinking you were pumping music into your spinal cord or something then I realized it was speakers you're talking about haha

You don't need PR for that necessarily but yeah I see your point.

See that's counter-intuitive to me because doesn't it usually imply some level of knowledge of the people or at least something you have in common?

I don't know them, I've never seen any of them more than once, I've never spoken to or been spoken to by them anywhere I lived, because people IRL generally keep to themselves and just talking to random strangers is pretty weird all in all.

With your usage of the word "community" in "community centre" i just figured it's an extremely old timey generic way to generically refer to a settlement, including cities, towns, residential areas/neighbourhoods, districts, zones, boroughs, areas and other localities that's fallen out of use.

In that case I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret @AnIndefiniteArticle's usage of the word, because I don't know how someone can destroy the social fabric of random collections of actual strangers on the street lol, there isn't any, they're just randoms on about their day.